Pernicious · Signs Of The Swarm

180 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33 and 80-87 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PERNICIOUS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49 and 27 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 17 sections: 101 keep time, 33 are fills, 6 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-120.

PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART C
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJOCXS17+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pernicious?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pernicious hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pernicious?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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